Goodness how can people take it seriously. The list is hardly well collated.

I would look for something a good deal more sophisticated in testing and modern to ascertain any general trend. As it stands I believe the Irish have the 3rd highest university enrolments (or something) after presumably Japan and then Canada. Contrasted with this mind numbingly dubious 78 and something is clearly unsound.

I acknowledge that various sub groups do exist in the white race. I am a nordic European by virtue of where I was born and who my ancestors were, but it makes me angry when I see people saying that nordics are in some way superior to slavs or meds or any other group of Europeans. I have been to nearly every country in the EU and I believe what I can see with my own two eyes. When it comes to Europeans, to quote the famous negro 'poet' Maya Angelou "we are more alike my friends than we are un-alike". Threads such as this are stupid and divisive and I would strongly question the motives of the people who start them.

Since essence of thinking is in understanding of relations, we can say that intelligence is reflected in ability to solve problems by comprehension or in understanding of essential relations in certain situation.

Spearman, one of the greatest investigators of intelligence, defined it like:

- understanding, realizing of relations between certain factors
- ability of abstract thinking, that is often related with speech

Different theories

Spearman's theory of two factors

By this theory success in any activity depends of one general factor G and of more specific factors (Sfactors). Spearman proved that there is a relation between all tests that require intellectual operations. That is because he regarded G-factor as identical as general intelligence.

Special factors are abilities as logical, psychological, machanical, arithmetic,musical…

Thurston's theory of group factors

Thurston believed that there is no one general ability but that there is strucure of a large number of different abilities – primary mental abilities. Every one of Thurston's factores is marked by a letter:

W – word fluency (richness of one's vocabulary, fast and easy finding of needed words and also fluent speaking)V – verbal (understanding of verbaly expressed contents)N – numeric (ability to operate with numbers especially with primary calculus)S – spacial (ability to present and imagine spacial relations and changes in space)M – memory (ability to preserve and renew of influences)P – perceptive (ability of fast perception of objects and their characteristics)R – reason (ability to understand relations, legalities, persistence. It is very similar with Spearmans general factor)

We also have Guilford's sistem of more than 50 separate factors.

IQ

IQ = intellectual quotient, and that is relation between intellectual and calendar age. It is related with famous Binet-Simon's scale from 1905 that was created to reveal children that was unable to follow regular school teachings.

How does it count?

IQ = intellectual age / calendar age X 100

There are collections of usually 6 problems for every year of someones age. Every problems represents 2 ''intellecutal months''. If someone pass all 6 problems he gets one year of intellectual age. When intellectual age is equal with calendar age IQ amounts 100.

Example: Intellectal age=16 Calendar age=15

16/15 x 100 = 106 therefore IQ of that child is 106. Easy, isn't it?

Individual differences

Average intelligence is when somebody has IQ between 90 and 110. Normal persons are those with IQ 70-130. 95% of population are normal, other 5% are mentally retarted or mentally tallented or gifted if you prefer.

Backwardness

Moronity: IQ=50-70
Imbecility: IQ=20-50
Idiocy: IQ= < 20

Talent

We can say that someone is tallented/gifted when IQ exceeds 130th mark on a graduated scale. Some of gifred people raise even to the genius level. Average IQ of famous philosophers, scientists, artists, musicians, statesmen, military leaders was about 155.

I don't trust IQ tests. My scores have varied from 119-135. It's a very hard thing to guage. As far as national scores go, we must realize that European nations with higher percentages of blacks and arabs will score lower than ethnically homogenous nations.